Combined window-curtain and shade-roller holder.



No. 75?,547. PATEHTED APR.19,1904."

- A. F. GILBERT. COMBINED. WINDOW CURTAIN AND SHADE ROLLER 1101 1153.

' APPLICATION FILED-0013.14, 1903.

no MODEL.

UNITED STAT S.

Patented April 19, 1904.

ADAM F. GILBERT, OF FARMERSVILLE, OHIO.

. .oomen'vzo WINDOW-CURTAIN AND SHADE-ROLLER HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,547, dated April 19, 1904.

Application filed October 14, 1903. Serial No. 177,072- (No model.)

. for its object to simplify and improve such devices, so that they may be quickly attached and detached and securely held while in use Without the use of holding-screws or nails or other devices which mar or 1111111131116 casings;

and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, ashereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrating the invention, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is aperspective view of a pair of the improved brackets in operative position. Fig. 2 is a side ele vation of the device applied.

The improved device consists of two brackets 10 11, spaced apart to conform to the window and provided with means, as hangers 12 13, for the support of the curtain-pole, (indicated only by dotted lines at 14,) this pole supporting the hangings or curtains in the usual manner. The upper end of the bracket members 10 11 are respectively provided with rearwardly-extending offsets or lugs 15 16, having spurs 17 18, while the lower ends are provided with reversely-disposed lateral lugs 19 20, having apertures therethrough, as shown. Two other brackets 21 22 are also provided, having hangers 23 24 for the support of the shade-roller, (indicated only by dotted lines at,25,) the hanger 24 having the aperture 27 for the stationary pivot of the shade-roller and the hanger 23 having the slot 26 for the rotating pivot of the usual form. The lower ends of the bracket members 21 22 are provided, respectively, with oflsets or lugs 28 29, having spurs 30 and corresponding to but reversed in position from the lugs 15 16 and their spurs 17 18, while the upper ends of the lower bracket members are formed with ofisets or lugs 32 33, corresponding to the lugs 19 20 and likewise apertured, as represented. The aperture in the lugs 19 20 and 32 33- are to receive clamp-bolts 3 k 35, having 7 nuts 36 37, as shown. With asetof brackets thus constructed the curtain-pole and shaderoller may be'quickly placed in position by hanging the lugs 15. 16 over the upper edge of the casing, as represented at 38, and inserting the lugs 28 29 beneath the opposite edge and clamping them 'in that position by the bolts 34 35 and their nuts 36 37. By this simple means the device may be quickly ap plied to any form, design, orwidth of windowcasing and without the use of screws, nails, or other disfiguring fastening means. The only portions which can produce abrasion upon the casing are the small spurs 1'7, 18, and 30, and these are so slight as to be imperceptible, and, moreover, they occur entirely upon the edges of the casing members, where they will not appear.

The devices may be very quickly attached and detached and require no other implement than a small screw-driver or wrench or may be secured with a suflicient grip by turning the nuts 36 37 with the fingers, and these may be in the form of milled-edged disk nuts for that purpose. The brackets maybe of any desired size or material and maybe of any fanciful design andplated or otherwise ornamented, as desired.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is 1 1. In a window curtain and shade holder, a bracket for the support of the curtain-pole having a lateral lug for engagement with one side of the window-casing, a bracket for the supportof the shade-roller having a lateral lug for engagement with the opposite side of the casing, and coupling means between said curtainpole bracket and shade-roller bracket, substantially as specified. v

2. In a window curtain and shade holder, a bracket for the support of the curtain-pole having a lateral lug for engagement with pne side ofthe window-casing, a bracket for the support of the shade-roller having a lateral lug for engagement With the opposite side of the casing, and a clamp-screw connecting said curtain-bracket and roller-bracket for adj nstably coupling them to said casing.

3. In a Window curtain and shade holder, a bracket for the support of the curtain-pole having a lateral lug at one end for engagement with one side of the Window-casing and a re'versely-disposed perforated lateral lug at its opposite end, a bracket for the support of the shade-rollerhaving a lateral lug atone end for engagement with the opposite side of the casing and with a reversely-disposed perforated lateral lug at its opposite end, and a clamp-bolt engaging said perforated lug and my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in.

the presence of two Witnesses.

ADAM F. GILBERT.

Witnesses:

JOHN G. RUFF, J. O. EOKTER. 

